Comments on: Cultural Quarter? http://www.dublinblog.ie/2006/06/22/cultural-quarter/ An award winning group blog, written by some of Dublin's best, most prolific, witty and engaging bloggers about the life and goings on in and around Dublin City Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:56:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Dec http://www.dublinblog.ie/2006/06/22/cultural-quarter/comment-page-1/#comment-862 Dec Sun, 25 Jun 2006 23:47:26 +0000 http://www.dublinblog.ie/2006/06/22/cultural-quarter/#comment-862 Yeah us Irish can hold our drink, at least until we get home and make it to the porcelain telephone to chat to Hughie and God. Yeah us Irish can hold our drink, at least until we get home and make it to the porcelain telephone to chat to Hughie and God.

]]> By: Dervla http://www.dublinblog.ie/2006/06/22/cultural-quarter/comment-page-1/#comment-815 Dervla Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:54:27 +0000 http://www.dublinblog.ie/2006/06/22/cultural-quarter/#comment-815 Thats a very sweeping statement Daragh. Heidi is right, its not the locals puking in Temple Bar. And there is a lot more to Temple Bar than drinking and eating and, for us Daragh, work. It may not be obvious, beyond the puke, but there is a vast array of cultural organisations based in Temple Bar. Off the top of my head, here are just a few: Project Arts Centre, Film Base, Irish Film Institute, Gallery of Photography, the Ark Childrens Centre, Black Church Print Studio, Temple Bar Music Centre. The full list can be found <a href="http://www.templebar.ie/home.php?nav=3&lang=1" rel="nofollow">here</a>. There are many events organised, especially in Temple Bar Square and Meeting House Square. Infact this Sunday, as part of the Diversions festival, a free open air concert will take place in Meeting House Square featuring Seamus Heaney and Liam O’Flynn, the internationally acclaimed uilleann piper. So folks, look beyond the pubs and the puke and discover the real reason Temple Bar is described as the Cultural Quarter. Thats a very sweeping statement Daragh. Heidi is right, its not the locals puking in Temple Bar. And there is a lot more to Temple Bar than drinking and eating and, for us Daragh, work.

It may not be obvious, beyond the puke, but there is a vast array of cultural organisations based in Temple Bar. Off the top of my head, here are just a few: Project Arts Centre, Film Base, Irish Film Institute, Gallery of Photography, the Ark Childrens Centre, Black Church Print Studio, Temple Bar Music Centre. The full list can be found here.

There are many events organised, especially in Temple Bar Square and Meeting House Square. Infact this Sunday, as part of the Diversions festival, a free open air concert will take place in Meeting House Square featuring Seamus Heaney and Liam O’Flynn, the internationally acclaimed uilleann piper.

So folks, look beyond the pubs and the puke and discover the real reason Temple Bar is described as the Cultural Quarter.

]]> By: Heidi http://www.dublinblog.ie/2006/06/22/cultural-quarter/comment-page-1/#comment-808 Heidi Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:17:19 +0000 http://www.dublinblog.ie/2006/06/22/cultural-quarter/#comment-808 I know that the Irish like to drink but it seems the tourists are the ones puking, not the locals. There are also better places to drink. I know that the Irish like to drink but it seems the tourists are the ones puking, not the locals. There are also better places to drink.

]]> By: Daragh http://www.dublinblog.ie/2006/06/22/cultural-quarter/comment-page-1/#comment-805 Daragh Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:33:11 +0000 http://www.dublinblog.ie/2006/06/22/cultural-quarter/#comment-805 Heidi, Surely you've been living here long enough now to realise that Irish <i>culture</i> is quite often about going out and drinking as much as you possibly can, forgetting your own name, where you live, vomiting on the street, and getting into a fight. So, I guess that makes Temple Bar very cultural!! Heidi,

Surely you’ve been living here long enough now to realise that Irish culture is quite often about going out and drinking as much as you possibly can, forgetting your own name, where you live, vomiting on the street, and getting into a fight. So, I guess that makes Temple Bar very cultural!!

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